Tag: Cornell University
Saving Humans Is More Important than Saving Pigs
A potential avenue of increasing the supply of organs — xenotransplantation — is not, in my view, morally problematic in the least.
Beyond Genes: Biologists Seek Purpose in Unknown Substances, Processes
There’s more going on in DNA and cells than the old Central Dogma predicted. The time has come to look beyond genes.
Are Birds Really Smarter than Reptiles?
Scientists clash over how to measure animal intelligence: brain volume, brain organization, numbers of neurons…?
Self-Replication? Not Even Close
Cornell University researchers allegedly “created a machine that can build copies of itself.”
Oh-So-Close to Self-Replication
All that is left is to add a factory to the Cornell device so it can produce for itself the molecubes that humans keep building and feeding them.